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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: While we're not meant to agree with [[ValuesDissonance Claudio's racist line]], this CringeComedy moment stands in the way of his redemption. Even worse is that it's set in the modern day, and nobody buy Benedick seems to react negatively.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: While we're not meant to agree with [[ValuesDissonance Claudio's racist line]], this CringeComedy moment stands in the way of his redemption. Even worse is that it's set in the modern day, and nobody buy but Benedick seems to react negatively.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Creator/JossWhedon not cutting Claudio's infamous "ethiope line" is less funny now that Creator/RayFisher has accused Whedon of onset abuse involving racism.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: While we're not meant to agree with [[ValuesDissonance Claudio's racist line]], this CringeComedy moment stands in the way of his redemption. Even worse is that it's set in the modern day, and nobody buy Benedick seems to react negatively.
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* ValuesDissonance: Several in moving Shakespeare to the modern day, most notably the plot-driving point of the scandal of a lady not being a virgin on her wedding night (saved in the particular by the extreme of her cheating the night before the wedding). See also LampshadeHanging above. WordOfGod is that the war the men are returned from is a Mafia war, which... explains a lot of the values dissonance, to put it mildly.
** Whedon chose not to excise Claudio's line "I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope" and instead draw humor from it by having a black woman stand right behind Claudio giving a DeathGlare while Benedick watches on with a handless FacePalm.
* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Claudio's unsavoury lines are ''not'' trimmed. In his commentary Whedon notes the difficulty of trying to sell the romance in this day and age, and points out that he tried to soften the blow by including a shot of Hero watching the funeral procession, and seeing how torn up he is.
** Whedon chose not to excise Claudio's line "I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope" and instead draw humor from it by having a black woman stand right behind Claudio giving a DeathGlare while Benedick watches on with a handless FacePalm.
* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Claudio's unsavoury lines are ''not'' trimmed. In his commentary Whedon notes the difficulty of trying to sell the romance in this day and age, and points out that he tried to soften the blow by including a shot of Hero watching the funeral procession, and seeing how torn up he is.
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* ValuesDissonance: ValuesDissonance:
** Several in moving Shakespeare to the modern day, most notably the plot-driving point of the scandal of a lady not being a virgin on her wedding night (saved in the particular by the extreme of her cheating the night before the wedding). See also LampshadeHanging above. WordOfGod is that the war the men are returned from is a Mafia war, which... explains a lot of the values dissonance, to put it mildly.
**Whedon Creator/JossWhedon chose not to excise Claudio's line "I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope" and instead draw humor from it by having a black woman stand right behind Claudio giving a DeathGlare while Benedick watches on with a handless FacePalm.
* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Claudio's unsavoury lines are ''not'' trimmed. In hiscommentary Whedon commentary, Creator/JossWhedon notes the difficulty of trying to sell the romance in this day and age, and points out that he tried to soften the blow by including a shot of Hero watching the funeral procession, and seeing how torn up he is.
** Several in moving Shakespeare to the modern day, most notably the plot-driving point of the scandal of a lady not being a virgin on her wedding night (saved in the particular by the extreme of her cheating the night before the wedding). See also LampshadeHanging above. WordOfGod is that the war the men are returned from is a Mafia war, which...
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* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Claudio's unsavoury lines are ''not'' trimmed. In his
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* AwesomeMusic: "Sigh No More."
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* AwesomeMusic: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Sigh No More."
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* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Claudio's unsavoury lines are ''not'' trimmed. In his commentary Whedon notes the difficulty of trying to sell the romance in this day and age, and points out that he tried to soften the blow by including a shot of Hero watching the funeral procession, and seeing how torn up he is.
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* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Claudio's unsavoury lines are ''not'' trimmed. In his commentary Whedon notes the difficulty of trying to sell the romance in this day and age, and points out that he tried to soften the blow by including a shot of Hero watching the funeral procession, and seeing how torn up he is.
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** Ditto for Creator/JillianMorgese in Hero's grief and devastation after her public humiliation, and especially in the scene where Leonato rails against her.
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** Ditto for Creator/JillianMorgese Jillian Morgese in Hero's grief and devastation after her public humiliation, and especially in the scene where Leonato rails against her.
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* TearJerker: Go on. Watch Creator/AmyAcker shatter under the weight of her own grief and try not to feel your heart breaking along with hers.
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** Go on. Watch Creator/AmyAcker shatter under the weight of her own grief and try not to feel your heart breaking along withhers.hers.
** Ditto for Creator/JillianMorgese in Hero's grief and devastation after her public humiliation, and especially in the scene where Leonato rails against her.
** Go on. Watch Creator/AmyAcker shatter under the weight of her own grief and try not to feel your heart breaking along with
** Ditto for Creator/JillianMorgese in Hero's grief and devastation after her public humiliation, and especially in the scene where Leonato rails against her.
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* AwesomeMusic: "Sigh No More."
* TearJerker: Go on. Watch Creator/AmyAcker shatter under the weight of her own grief and try not to feel your heart breaking along with hers.
* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Claudio's unsavoury lines are ''not'' trimmed. In his commentary Whedon notes the difficulty of trying to sell the romance in this day and age, and points out that he tried to soften the blow by including a shot of Hero watching the funeral procession, and seeing how torn up he is.
* ValuesDissonance: Several in moving Shakespeare to the modern day, most notably the plot-driving point of the scandal of a lady not being a virgin on her wedding night (saved in the particular by the extreme of her cheating the night before the wedding). See also LampshadeHanging above. WordOfGod is that the war the men are returned from is a Mafia war, which... explains a lot of the values dissonance, to put it mildly.
** Whedon chose not to excise Claudio's line "I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope" and instead draw humor from it by having a black woman stand right behind Claudio giving a DeathGlare while Benedick watches on with a handless FacePalm.
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* TearJerker: Go on. Watch Creator/AmyAcker shatter under the weight of her own grief and try not to feel your heart breaking along with hers.
* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Claudio's unsavoury lines are ''not'' trimmed. In his commentary Whedon notes the difficulty of trying to sell the romance in this day and age, and points out that he tried to soften the blow by including a shot of Hero watching the funeral procession, and seeing how torn up he is.
* ValuesDissonance: Several in moving Shakespeare to the modern day, most notably the plot-driving point of the scandal of a lady not being a virgin on her wedding night (saved in the particular by the extreme of her cheating the night before the wedding). See also LampshadeHanging above. WordOfGod is that the war the men are returned from is a Mafia war, which... explains a lot of the values dissonance, to put it mildly.
** Whedon chose not to excise Claudio's line "I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope" and instead draw humor from it by having a black woman stand right behind Claudio giving a DeathGlare while Benedick watches on with a handless FacePalm.
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